Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Poll

    I take polls with young soldiers (under 21). They are not supposed to talk to me. Curiosity. When I ask them if they would shoot to kill Americans, the answer is 100%, yes. One thing popped up I did not expect. “I want to go out and kill some trans

  2. leatherlady

    The Danger is That Developing Human Consciousness in an Algorithmic Threshold of an Abyss in freefall// Why Are You Here/ Here, Right Now, That Kind of Fear and Muscle Underneath the Grey Autumn’s Chase/ Naked in Such Grace/ as is Allowed/ to Push at Chase Boundaries/ when Maybe we Let…

  3. Prove Me Wrong

    sailors sail/ usually far away/ tell me stories/ sex stories/ i love cheap sex stories/ reading them is still a/ political act/ all i want is some surrender, surrender to the moment, I want something to look like this genocide this time, too, just like this// sweet jesus jesus there

  4. Tim Barrus Blog

    “All politics to existential conflict.” The term: “The Left” is an existential crutch. ” Who are these people. The Left. It’s an illusion. There is no such thing as the left, and any war against people who do not exist is a little silly. The left, the left, the left,

  5. Dog Landing

    If it wasn’t for my dogs, I would not be here. They are something to live for. They love you back. They really do.

  6. Americana

    Great piece. Cottom is an extraordinary writer. She gets right to the point. And she makes sense. What is surprising is that Tressie McMillan Cottom is still at the New York Times. I can think of about 500 publications that would show her the door. What is coming (it will

  7. Tim Barrus

    I live in Small Town Appalachia. We don’t even have a gas station. We have a little movie theatre no one goes to. Mainly, we grow food so the country can eat. The people here are racists. The people here are Christian Warriors whose ability to confront (anything) stays in

  8. When We Die Again

    When We Die Again Tim Barrus My life has been a life of death. Code for it has not been much of a life. Is that all you got. I am disappointed. What a waste of so many lives because one old white man says we all need to die.

  9. ICE IS SHOOTING AMERICANS AS I WRITE THIS


  10. Migrant Children

    The Supreme Court is illegitimate. The shadow side to human life. They are profoundly immoral, greedy, arrogant, pompous, imperious, heinous, pontificating, and of no value to society whatsoever. Class and caste. So, now according to the current Roger Taney Supreme Court, ICE is allowed to arrest you based on the